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      Ernest Jones's Poems. The Bat* N ^Jnd Ot...

      _„ .... _ ,...., " j ^ £ - : inp ^ c 0 < j < i ie touch , the ear , Jhe sight ! Oh ! 'it had yielded , to , a bi ; eatli--r ! One . little word of love and faith I That little word was never spoken : And souls -were wrecked—and hearts were broken ! To forget , if possible , the weight at his heart ) Lindsay leaves his native land acid becomes the sole commander of an-army , —what army we are not told ; but Doubt again loses him the battle . There is spirited writing here : — As to winds sink scattered waves , . On that deathfield without graves Down before the cannon-blast Behold a living pavement ; cast . And siiir they stood , and still they fell Before the red advancing hell : Then turned to Lindsay every eye , * Broke from the field one smothered cry Demanding but that single sign To crush the foes' up-gathering line . Every horse is scarce held back—Every heart is on the rack— . Every spirit on the rise : It w , the moment—and it ^ ies I j ¦ And . up and down—and to and fro—The battle Reeled across the plain , And when its force seemed stricken loir , Up burst the fiend afresh again ; "With quivering arm and panting breath , And battered bone and streaming vein , ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ But' heart as fierce as it began——A mass of horse , and steel and man-Squadron hurtling , —shattered square , — But still enough to do and dare ; Beat of foot and hard hoof prancing , Now receding , now advancing , — The ebb and flow of the tide of death ! The Peer ' s story is a narrative piece which goes on and on until at last the catastrophe is so postponed one is hardly conscious of its origin . The governess of a noble house becomes attached to the tutor ; their love is discovered , by the eldest son , who is jealous , and whispers his own passion to- the' frightened Clare . Lady Carleon , the mother , * s as worldly and dignified as some ladies are wont to be when their plans are outwitted , and she makes the poor governess feel her inferior position . " For she could smile opponents down , With smiles more cutting than a frown . " Yet the Peer loves , and we are left to guess that he enjoys some kind of reward for his independence . Mr . Jones is more at home in "The Factory Town , " and although there is exaggeration in painting the " bloated manufacturer , " there is only too substantial a truth , in the sketch of thq stunted and saddened worker : — There they lie—the withered corses , With one regretful thought , Tram pled by thy fierce steam-horses , . England ' s mighty Juggernaut 1 Over all . the solemn heaven Arches , like a God ' s reproof At the offerings men has driven To Hell ' s altars , loom and woof I Hear ye not the secret sighing ? And the tear drop thro' the night ? See ye not a nation dying For want of rest , and air , and light ? Perishing for want of Nature I Crowded in the stifling town—Dwarfed in brain and shrunk * in stature—Generations growing down I Thinner wanes the rural village , . <• ¦¦¦ ' ¦¦ i ¦ Smokier lies the fallow piaih-ii Shrinks the cornfields' pleasant tillage , Fades the orchard ' s rich domain j And a banished population Festers in the fetid street : — Give us , God , to s , ave our nation , Less of cotton , more of wheat . Tako us back to lee and wild wood , Back to nature and to Thee ! To the child restore hie childhood—,, . To tho man his dignity I . ¦ -

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      Trade Barbarism Est Art. A Einoulab Comm...

      TRADE BARBARISM EST ART . A eiNOULAB commentary on the amount and nature of ow popular appreciation of , tho Fine ' Arts may bo found in a piece of Vandalism recently committed in tho City . Several steel plates , on which were engraved Borne of tho 'Vqst , Works ' , of , X * cu > bkeh ., EasKxakb ,, and other eminent English artists , and the ori g inal production of which , b y the present Lord Mayor , had cost a sum little short of 80 , 000 J ., weio , in tho course of last week , destroyed by their present proprietor , Mr , Boys , at the Albion Tavern , Aldersgate-etreet , in the presenco of a large body of tho most celebrated printsellers and print-publishera in tho metropolis . Th ' ipi w ^ ll-known prints , " The Waterloo Banquet , " "Tho Queen receiving the Sacrament , " "The Christening of tho Prhicesa Royal , " Sir Cwablks -lKU-1 : i -ii , n ¦•"

      Easti-aiue ' s . ' . " Christ Weeping over Jerusalem , --Sftt Eiiwasr Ltaudsber ' s " Return from Hawking , " and several others , . were ruthlessly battered and cut to pieces , the fragments being exhibited nailed on boards . The reason for this destruction was stated by Mr . Boys to be this— . £ hat " the patrons of art , " having paid ten , fifteen , or twenty guineas for an engraving , do not like to see , in the course of a few years , as they often do , impressions from the same plate hawked about for incredibly low sums . The plates had , therefore , been destroyed , and the value was thus fixed , unless , indeed , it should rise still higher . Such was Mr . Boys explanation j but a later and wiser age will wonder at such barbarism—at so sordid a sacrifice of Art to money , and so singular an evidence of the kind of value placed by aristocratic " patrons '

      of the pencil and the burine upon the productions ot genius .. A . more complete specimen of moneyed selfishness was never given . The masses are to be shut out from the enjoyment of works of art in order that the property of my Lord Tomnoddy or Mr . Alderman Turtle may not be depreciated in the market ; the value of an engraving to such comprehensions consisting , not in any appeal to the divine and spiritual elements of our nature—our perceptions of the noble , the beautiful , and the sublimebut in the consideration of how much it will fetch , if sold , or how far , when hanging on the walls or lying in the portfolios of its purchaser , it bear 3 testimony to his wealth and position . One -would [ have supposed that the extra sum paid by the original subscribers is compensated for by the superior delicacy of first impressions , and the privilege of anticipating others in the possession of a given work . But the Tomnoddies and Turtles will have their ten or twenty guineas' worth in perpetuity , with a prospect of enhanced value , or they will pout and whimper over thengrievance . It may be very true that in the present case none of the plates can be considered works of very hig h , art ; but that does not affect the

      abstract question . After the immolation of the plates , the remaining impressions were put up to a trade sale , the competition of which was very spirited . A liberal dinner terminated this exhibition of modern Paganism in Art .

      The Haymabket Melodrama The Fate Wl.Ich ...

      The Haymabket Melodrama The fate wl . ich usually attends on modern attempts at tragic drama has befallen a four-act p lay which was produced at the HAY 3 TARKET Theatre last Saturday night , and which already has been discreetly withdrawn—that is to say , adjourned sine die . The Beginning and the End is the title of this play ; and if a realization of that title within a very few nights— the Omega following posre-naste upon the Alpha be a token of success , the production must certainly be described as having succeeded . Mrs . Lambert , the wife of a starving Bristol clerk , and the mother of his starving children , induces her husband to forge a willin virtue ( or in vice ) of whichan old German merchant ,

      , , who is on his death-bed , is made to leave his property to Lambert . -Lne clerk himself at first objects , but is over-ruled by his strong-minded spouse . The old merchant dies ; the fraudulent will is produced ; * he Lambert family are made rich and—and miserable ; and Lambert himselt becomes a confirmed drunkard . Worse than all , they are in the power ot a burglar , who happened to have been unlawfully in the Cxerman merchant ' s house on the night of the forgery , and , concealed in the pantryr to have witnessed the destruction in the kitchen fire of the genuine will . This individual , therefore , hangs like an avenging Jove over the guilty fnmiW . shaven thfiir m-onertv . and at length proposes for the eldest

      daughter—no , not proposes , but demands her . To get this disagreeable fellow out of the way , the mother gives him a cup of poisoned wine ; but , before drinking it , be offers . a sip to one of the little boys . The mother screams out with horror , and the suspicions of the burglar are aroused , Drawing a knife , he swears he will cut the child ' s throat , unless either he or his mother drinks the wine . Mrs . Lambert humours him by qn ain . ug the aoblet , and obliges the audience by dying soon after in much agony t » otn of body and mind . Thereupon , enter officers of justice , and arrests the burglar for previous villanies by him committed . Also , a lover ot the young lady , to whom it is discovered that the old German merchant had left all his property by the real will , the said lover being , in fact , though not hitherto known as such , the merchant ' s very dear nephew . And so it nil ends .

      Miss ( Jushman , as Mrs . Lam 7 > ert , did her best to create a success Mr . CuirPKNDALE was rugged and forcible in the part of the husband ; and Mr . Howe performed Mat Hall , the burglar , with p icturesque vagabondism . But the play was loudly hissed at « the end , it not at " the beginning , " and is now dead and buried . It will be seen from the plot , that there is a most prodigal heaping up of Pelions of horror upon Ossas of ditto , till , like some of the extravagancies of Dante , the grwa topples over into the ludicrous . Tho play , which ought rather to have been cast in tlie form of a melodrama , would probably have succeeded at the ADKLrni : but a Ha . ymark . kt audienae requires something different .

      Sei-P Bicfobm Of This City.—The Followin...

      Sei-p Bicfobm of this City . —The following resolution was on Monday submitt ted for adoption to tho Court of Common Council : —" That it is desirable to co-operate with her Majesty ' s Government in passing through Parliament a bill lot tho reform of the corporation , founded upon the resolutions agreed to by this Court on the 24 th of February , 1864 ; that Mr . Remembrancer be directed to prepare tie draught of a bill in conformity with the above resolution , to bo aubmitted for the approval of tliitf Court ; and ; that a conference bo held thereon with her Majesty a Government . " After considerable discussion , the following rather incongruous amendments wore adopted : — " That no further discussion takes place until tho Court has tho Government bill before them . " " That it is deairnbj * to confer with her IVIajesty ' B Government in passing through Parliament a bill for tho reform of tlitfl corporation , nnd that a committee of three aldermen and twelve commoners W appointed for that purposu and to report to this Court . " Fatal Coixxbky ExrxoaioN . —An explosion lias taken place in a colliery at Bolton , owing to a man entering the workings with a naked light- Tuo gas , wluca had accumulated during tho- night , at onco took fire , and live men were severely burnt , ono of whom has since died .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1855, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03111855/page/20/